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JOHN HODGE (1964 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: United Agents (agent: Rose Cobbe) |
Born into a family of doctors, he followed the traditional path into medicine until he met with producer 'Andrew McDonald' in 1990 and completed the screenplay for Shallow Grave (1994). He returned to medicine again briefly following the release of the film, but then returned to screenwriting with Trainspotting (1996).
Plays by John Hodge
Collaborators | ||
| 1st Produced: | National Theatre, Cottesloe, South Bank, London. SE1 9PX >>> | 25 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571283996 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133738 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
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| Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And then he's offered a poisoned chalice: a commission to write a play about Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer as he loses himself in a macabre and disturbingly funny relationship with the omnipotent subject of his drama. Killing my enemies is easy. The challenge is to change the way they think, to control their minds. And I think I controlled yours pretty well. In years to come, I'll be able to say: Bulgakov? Yeah, we even trained him. He gave up. He saw the light. We broke him, we can break anybody. It's man versus monster, Mikhail. And the monster always wins. John Hodge's blistering new play depicts a lethal game of cat and mouse through which the appalling compromises and humiliations inflicted on any artist by those with power are held up to scrutiny. | |||||
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